Police shoots man dead for resisting arrest in Ogun(Photo)
A young man in his late 30s, Saheed Bamiro, was Wednesday
morning shot dead by a policeman, simply identified as Kabiru for
resisting arrest in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State.
According to PMnews, the deceased, who was a commercial motorcycle
rider, and also issues tickets to riders in Ijebu Ode was a native of
Ijebu Igbo in Ijebu North
local government area of the state.
Sources said the late Bamiro’s neighbour, simply called Iyabo, had
gone to the police station to report him over an issue and when Kabiru
the policeman came to arrest him with handcuffs, he resisted and in the
ensuing argument, the policeman shot him and he died on the spot.
The incident occurred at 71, Olukoku street, near a filling station in Ijebu Ode.
Narrating the incident to our correspondent, the Chairman of the
Vigilante Service of Ogun State, VSO, Comrade Yemi Ijaoba Odukoya said
the corpse of Bamiro has been deposited at the state mortuary, Omo-Owo
area in Ijebu Ode.
According to him,
“I received a distress call from some elders in the area and when
I rushed there, I met the bleeding man at the scene of the incident.
“We tried to see if the man could be revived but he had died immediately he was shot. I took his remains to the state mortuary.
“What I was told was that he had a longstanding quarrel with one
of his neighbours, identified as Iyabo and the woman had gone to the
police station to inform them that the man was around and a police
officer was asked to accompany her to arrest the man.“It was in the
course of getting the man arrested and handcuffed that he resisted and
the police was said to have shot him in the head and he died
immediately.“I have put a call across to the Area Commander at Igbeba
and what I was told was that the policeman has been arrested and
detained for further interrogation,” the VSO boss explained.
Saheed Bamiro is survived by a wife, Seun and three young kids.
No comments:
Disclaimer:
*Don't Forget To Drop Your Comments After Reading
*Comments on this blog are NOT posted by Agbo.
*Agbosblog Readers are SOLELY responsible for the comments they post on Agbosblog.com
*Follow On Instagram @agbosblog
*Follow On Twitter @agbosblog
Thank You